Hi! I’m Samaneh
Vajdi

Product Designer who ships · Vancouver

I turn research into product decisions, then follow those decisions all the way to a working interface — with the front-end skill to build what I design, not just hand it off.

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Worked with

  • Porton Health CorpLead Product Designer
    2021 – now
  • Huumans IncLead UI/UX Designer (contract)
    2025 – 2026
  • BrainStationDiploma, UX Design
    2025
  • Freelance clientsHealthcare, SaaS, consumer
    2017 – now

My Journey in Design & User Experience

I started in web development, where I learned how products are built and where they break down for the people using them. That pushed me toward UX: not to make interfaces look better, but to make them work better.

Today I lead product design and front-end work at Porton Health, designing complex healthcare workflows such as intake, booking, appointments and EMR integration. I work across research, interaction design, design systems and code, so a decision made in a prototype survives the trip into production.

How I work

I start from the workflow, not the screen. I map who does what, find where it breaks, then design the flows, prototypes and production-ready interfaces that fix it.

Visual design that communicates

Layout, contrast, colour and iconography should make content easier to scan and decisions easier to make. I keep interfaces calm and consistent, and accessible by default.

Research and iteration

Research, usability testing and design critiques guide the work. Testing early surfaces friction while it is still cheap to fix, and it shows in clearer flows, better copy and smarter defaults.

What I bring to a team

I work closely with Product and Engineering, build design systems and component guidelines, and mentor two junior designers. Because I also write React, I can judge feasibility early and keep design intent intact through implementation.

Right now

Lead Product Designer & Technical Lead

Porton Health Corp2021 – Present

  • Healthcare workflows

    Designing intake, booking, appointments and EMR integration end to end.

  • Legacy to modern

    Turning legacy clinical workflows into clear user flows, prototypes and production-ready interfaces.

  • Design systems

    Building reusable UI patterns and component guidelines with Product and Engineering.

  • Team

    Running research, usability testing and design critiques, and mentoring two junior designers.

AI-assisted design

Exploring ideas and prototyping faster with generative UX and AI-assisted tools, then taking the best ones through research and testing.

  • AI-assisted product design
  • Generative UX
  • AI prototyping

Tools

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Miro
  • Jira
  • Prototyping
  • Design systems
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • Accessibility / WCAG

Featured Work

UX and front end, from research to shipped UI.

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